Initiation
To produce any kind of sound, there must be movement of air. To produce sounds that people today can interpret as words, the movement of air must pass though the vocal chords, up through the throat and, into the mouth or nose to then leave the body. What forms the different sounds and allows people to create different words is though the different position's of the mouth (or as linguists call it "the oral cavity". This is to distinguish it from the nasal cavity)
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Famous quotes containing the word initiation:
“The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new—whether it be the settlement of new lands or the initiation of new ways of life—is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever—whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman—a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)